[ilds] Odious masterpieces

[Bruce Redwine]

I guess this is all a matter of tastes, but my “masterpieces” (“great works” of art) are not “odious” (repulsive).  The latter I would reserve for de Sade.  A paradox.  On the other hand, perhaps all this goes back to the idea of the “Sublime” as propagated by Edmund Burke and the Romantics.  The Sublime contains terror.  Maybe that is what Blanford refers to.  There’s a good deal of terror in the Quintet.


Bruce




> On Jun 1, 2015, at 10:48 PM, mail at durrelllibrarycorfu.org wrote:
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> Why cannot a book be both a "masterpiece" (whatever that is) and "odious" (whatever that is)? Try "Last Exit to Brroklyn"? Sade? "Women, Beware Women" (and a red herring thence to Livia)?
> Richard Pine
> Durrell Library of Corfu 
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